It's been a little over six years now since we relaunched Digg. Since then, the stories on the Digg front page have been curated by our team of human editors and in that time we have hand-picked (literally) tens of thousands of articles to share with you.
And that's not going away — we'll still be logging on every day to find the best stories and videos on the web so you can zone out for a bit during your lunch break. But it's been one-way traffic for six years, and we've decided it's time to start handing some control back over to you, the loyal Digg reader.
The first step in that process is an experiment we're launching today: User Recommendations. We're guessing you want to share stories about the cool, curious stuff that interests you, we (the Digg editors) definitely want to hear about them and we're pretty sure other Digg users will want to hear about them too.
How It Works
- You read a story that you think is really darn good and worth sharing with the Digg community. Here's what we're looking for in particular:
- Non-newsy stories that were published recently (think, within the last few days)
- Stories from smaller publications, blogs and personal websites
- Stories that are interesting to the general Digg audience, even if they're about a niche topic
- You send the link to submit@digg.com or at di.gg/submit, along with your first name and last initial and, if you've got one, a link to your Digg profile
- If we're fans of the story you've submitted (and haven't already dug it up ourselves), we'll let you know and it will appear on the front page looking something like this:
So send us your favorite stories, and stay tuned for more future experiments.
